book-learned
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For why should a blockhead have one in ten For prating so long like a book-learned sot Till pudding and dumpling burn to a pot?
From Time Magazine Archive
Not content with book-learned appreciation of foreign affairs, students will go abroad in their upperclass summer vacations to study and observe while living in "homes where only the foreign language is spoken."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Bogstad children practiced their book-learned English, while the Ames children were willing teachers.
From Added Upon A Story by Anderson, Nephi
Ban’t beggin’, as he knaws, for nobody doubts you’m the most book-learned man in Chagford after parson.”
From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden
I was trained in a different school, and my motto's good work for good wage; But the sweaters and spouters between 'em spoil that in this book-learned age.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 by Various
